Online Intensive Weekend Retreat
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This intensive retreat is an opportunity to dedicate a full weekend to deepening in your spiritual practice.
Each session will start with a guided meditation, followed by the opportunity for you to explore whatever arises in the moment. In addition, you will be offered dedicated practices to follow outside of the scheduled sessions. If you feel in your heart a call to discover the formless essence of your Being and to open fully to that, then you are invited to join us on this journey of inner exploration. |
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Retreat Schedule
You will receive downloadable recordings of each meeting session. If you are not able to attend certain sessions live due to the time difference, you are invited to watch the recording of the missed session at a suitable time for you during the weekend. Silent sitting and music sessions will not be recorded.
Select your timezone:
Friday July 9th
Meeting
07:00am - 09:00am
Meeting
10:00am - 12:00pm
Saturday July 10th
Silent Sitting
12:00am - 01:00am
Meeting
07:00am - 09:00am
Meeting
10:30am - 12:00pm
Meeting
02:00pm - 04:00pm
Silent Sitting
06:00pm - 07:00pm
Sunday July 11th
Music
12:00am - 01:00am
Meeting
07:00am - 09:00am
Meeting
10:30am - 12:00pm
Meeting
02:00pm - 04:00pm
Meeting: Session with Louise.
Silent Sitting: Hosted by a team member. One is intended for participants in the Americas and the other for participants in Europe, Asia and Australia.
Music: Relax or dance to our music offering.
Silent Sitting: Hosted by a team member. One is intended for participants in the Americas and the other for participants in Europe, Asia and Australia.
Music: Relax or dance to our music offering.
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With the intention of making this retreat accessible for everybody who wishes to join, discounted rates are offered for those experiencing financial hardship and nationals of countries with a low GDP.
Regular rate: The price of the retreat.
Discounted rate: Intended for those who are experiencing financial difficulties.
Sponsor rate: Intended for those who are financially abundant and would like to supplement those paying the discounted rate.
75% discount: For those living in developing countries with a low GDP, such as India. (Option will appear after clicking 'book' below).
Regular rate: The price of the retreat.
Discounted rate: Intended for those who are experiencing financial difficulties.
Sponsor rate: Intended for those who are financially abundant and would like to supplement those paying the discounted rate.
75% discount: For those living in developing countries with a low GDP, such as India. (Option will appear after clicking 'book' below).
Price includes access to all zoom meetings and downloadable video recordings of all the meetings.
EUR €
Regular Rate €84.00
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USD $Regular Rate $100.00
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GBP £Regular Rate £75.00
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Please select your currency.
You can pay by credit card or by bank transfer.
Bank transfer is the preferred method of payment.
You can pay by credit card or by bank transfer.
Bank transfer is the preferred method of payment.
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"What you seek is right here, right now, beyond thought, beyond emotion and beyond story. You already are that which you seek and with the openness and willingness to gently and honestly observe your behaviours, thoughts and emotions, everything that is not aligned with your highest truth will naturally fall away as you begin to embody and radiate your true self, pure awareness. I invite you to sit with me in pure presence as I support you to connect with the essence of your being which transcends all form, as we become still and deeply allow what is already here."
~ Louise |
Open Zoom Meeting
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Denmark weekend retreat
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"I'm so blessed and grateful to have been able to spend time with you in Rishikesh and the world is blessed with what you are doing. I recommend anyone who wants to experience true happiness and freedom from what limits them to share a space with you. It's been one of the best times of my life!"
~ Louis, The UK |
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BIO
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Louise Kay was born in Lancashire, in the north west of England. After graduating from university she worked as an English teacher for 15 years, and during this time began to question the deeper meaning of life. This led her to the path of spirituality, where she found a strong resonance with the teachings of non-duality.
In her early thirties Louise felt a deep call in her heart to visit India, where she found what she had been looking for and experienced a profound spiritual awakening. Shortly afterwards, during a deep meditation, Louise was contacted by a non-physical intelligence and began channeling. She travelled around the world sharing this channeling gift for several years, and during this time experienced a deepening and integration of her initial spiritual awakening. |
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As Louise opened more to this truth a new form of expression revealed itself from deep in her heart and Louise now holds group Open to Truth events around the world. She also offers Embodied Awareness private sessions both in person and online. Louise's passion is to sit together in presence and hold gentle, unconditionally loving space for all emotions, all sensations and all experiences which arise in the moment in order to support the integration of unresolved energies and allow the unfolding of the divine in all who feel the call.
The Relationship Between Spiritual Awakening
and the Integration of Childhood Emotional Trauma
Jan 13, 2019
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Most of us as children experienced situations where we felt overwhelmed by our emotions. Maybe a parent yelled at us or hit us, projecting their own emotional traumas onto us. Maybe we met our parents with wide open hearts and they weren't able to meet us back in that love, leaving us feeling unloveable and unworthy. Maybe it was something seemingly small like another child not wanting to play with us. And our gentle hearts were so open. We were so sensitive, innocent, pure, and oh so sweet, and our tender little nervous systems didn't know how to handle these situations. |
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That little one wasn't taught how to be present with emotions, how to gently feel and allow the sensations in the body with unconditional love. In fact, most of us were taught that our emotions are bad and that there was something wrong with us for feeling what we were feeling, that our sensitivity was in fact a sign of weakness and that we should hide it and 'be strong.' And so feelings were repressed and emotional traumas were born.
Different nervous systems respond to these emotional traumas in different ways. Some shut down and became numb, some put up walls of protection around the heart and most develop coping mechanisms, behaviours which allow us to keep on surviving despite the agony that we feel inside, such as numbing our pain with food or other addictive substances and functioning in the world on top of repressed, unprocessed emotions.
When we mature on a spiritual level part of the awakening process that we go through involves meeting and integrating the emotional traumas from our past. We remember how to feel again in a healthy way and we learn how to hold gentle, unconditionally loving space for ourselves and our old pain. For many people it can be scary to open up to these feelings. "What if I open a can of worms and I can't handle it? What if it's too overwhelming? What if it's too painful? What if I open up and then lose my capacity to shut down again? I might have to live in a state of constant overwhelm! Then how will I function in my life?" These fears are a by-product of past emotional trauma. The nervous system remembers how challenging it was to feel overwhelming pain as a child and the mind produces thoughts to try to protect us from feeling that pain again.
In its own sweet way the mind simply wants to keep us safe and it believes that the most effective way to do this is to keep us in control of our experience. While this intention is benevolent, its interference (in the form of thoughts and unconscious beliefs) actually creates resistance to us feeling old energies and it sabotages our healing process by continuously pulling our attention out of our body and into the mind. However, once we understand how the mind's protection mechanism functions we are able to override it by disidentifying from our thoughts. By simply observing our thoughts and turning our attention to the space in which the thoughts arise, our consciousness expands and we are able to see a bigger and much clearer picture. It is from this space of clarity that we can begin to approach the repressed emotions and gently open to them on a physical and energetic level. We do this by becoming fully present and gently opening deeper and deeper to feeling and allowing the sensations in the body as we dive into the infinite void of peaceful, transcendant Being.
Like with everything, as we practice being present with our feelings and opening to them with love, our capacity to do so increases. We are able to stay present with larger and more intense waves of emotion. We don't try to avoid emotions, and nor do we get taken over by them. We surrender to the emotions and become one with them, and by doing so we walk through the gateway of truth, the gateway to our True self, the gateway to the infinite oneness, our true nature, pure awareness.
So don't aim to 'half-open' to feeling in order to stay safe. Dive in head first. Let your heart be smashed into a million pieces. Let it be ripped and torn and broken and shredded. Feel the rawness and the vulnerability. Surrender fully, meet everything with presence, and what you will discover is that you cannot be broken. What you will discover is that you cannot be hurt. What you will discover is the truth of who you are. Eternity itself.
Different nervous systems respond to these emotional traumas in different ways. Some shut down and became numb, some put up walls of protection around the heart and most develop coping mechanisms, behaviours which allow us to keep on surviving despite the agony that we feel inside, such as numbing our pain with food or other addictive substances and functioning in the world on top of repressed, unprocessed emotions.
When we mature on a spiritual level part of the awakening process that we go through involves meeting and integrating the emotional traumas from our past. We remember how to feel again in a healthy way and we learn how to hold gentle, unconditionally loving space for ourselves and our old pain. For many people it can be scary to open up to these feelings. "What if I open a can of worms and I can't handle it? What if it's too overwhelming? What if it's too painful? What if I open up and then lose my capacity to shut down again? I might have to live in a state of constant overwhelm! Then how will I function in my life?" These fears are a by-product of past emotional trauma. The nervous system remembers how challenging it was to feel overwhelming pain as a child and the mind produces thoughts to try to protect us from feeling that pain again.
In its own sweet way the mind simply wants to keep us safe and it believes that the most effective way to do this is to keep us in control of our experience. While this intention is benevolent, its interference (in the form of thoughts and unconscious beliefs) actually creates resistance to us feeling old energies and it sabotages our healing process by continuously pulling our attention out of our body and into the mind. However, once we understand how the mind's protection mechanism functions we are able to override it by disidentifying from our thoughts. By simply observing our thoughts and turning our attention to the space in which the thoughts arise, our consciousness expands and we are able to see a bigger and much clearer picture. It is from this space of clarity that we can begin to approach the repressed emotions and gently open to them on a physical and energetic level. We do this by becoming fully present and gently opening deeper and deeper to feeling and allowing the sensations in the body as we dive into the infinite void of peaceful, transcendant Being.
Like with everything, as we practice being present with our feelings and opening to them with love, our capacity to do so increases. We are able to stay present with larger and more intense waves of emotion. We don't try to avoid emotions, and nor do we get taken over by them. We surrender to the emotions and become one with them, and by doing so we walk through the gateway of truth, the gateway to our True self, the gateway to the infinite oneness, our true nature, pure awareness.
So don't aim to 'half-open' to feeling in order to stay safe. Dive in head first. Let your heart be smashed into a million pieces. Let it be ripped and torn and broken and shredded. Feel the rawness and the vulnerability. Surrender fully, meet everything with presence, and what you will discover is that you cannot be broken. What you will discover is that you cannot be hurt. What you will discover is the truth of who you are. Eternity itself.
Transcending the Mind
Nov 03, 2018
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The mind is in a hurry. It wants answers and it
wants them now. "When will such and such happen?" "When will I get
that?" For the mind the present moment is incomplete and unsatisfying
and it continuously and desperately seeks completeness. It believes that
completeness will come at some point in the future when a different
emotion is experienced, when certain information has been attained, when
a particular status has been reached or when material gain has been
achieved. "When will I feel differently?" "When will I finally be
happy?" "When will I know my purpose?" "When will I meet my life
partner?" The barrage of thoughts never ends and if one question is
answered, another appears. If one desire is fulfilled, another appears.
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The only way to end this vicious cycle of seeking
and to experience a true and lasting sense of completeness is to
transcend the mind by totally letting go of all thoughts and
surrendering fully into the present moment. Letting go of thoughts
doesn't mean that thoughts stop appearing. It means that they are
noticed but not believed in. They are observed but they are not given
any power and they are not identified with.
Transcendence of the mind cannot happen in the future. It can only happen in this moment, regardless of how this moment presents itself. Become still right now and notice how this moment feels. Simply perceive whatever is here without any judgement. Observe the thoughts, notice the breath and feel the body. Open to the completeness that is already here. Accept this moment fully, exactly as it is without trying to change anything about it. Maybe that means feeling sadness or heaviness or anger. That's ok. Feel deeper and deeper into the sensations in the body and gently welcome whatever is here. This moment is not a mistake. This moment is perfection. It is only the belief that this moment is flawed that prevents us from experiencing the perfection that is here. When we release ourselves from the grasp of that belief by recognising it, and we have the willingness to embrace our experience fully, we naturally open to the completeness that is already here.
Transcendence of the mind cannot happen in the future. It can only happen in this moment, regardless of how this moment presents itself. Become still right now and notice how this moment feels. Simply perceive whatever is here without any judgement. Observe the thoughts, notice the breath and feel the body. Open to the completeness that is already here. Accept this moment fully, exactly as it is without trying to change anything about it. Maybe that means feeling sadness or heaviness or anger. That's ok. Feel deeper and deeper into the sensations in the body and gently welcome whatever is here. This moment is not a mistake. This moment is perfection. It is only the belief that this moment is flawed that prevents us from experiencing the perfection that is here. When we release ourselves from the grasp of that belief by recognising it, and we have the willingness to embrace our experience fully, we naturally open to the completeness that is already here.